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The year 2020

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January

1Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · kept 2The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 3The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 4If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 5What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 6This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 7I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. Zora Neale Hurston 8Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf 9One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir 10The die is cast. Julius Caesar 11The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner · shelf 12When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke 13I accuse. Émile Zola 14So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 15I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.16Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Susan Sontag 17Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin 18Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 19The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 20Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy 21And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 22Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 23You have a right to the work alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let… The Bhagavad Gita · shelf 24Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 25A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf 26The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 27I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 28Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.29Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. Anton Chekhov 30Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 31Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf

February

1I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes 2History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce 3The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 4The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 5If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton 6We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 7It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens 8History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf 9All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. Julian of Norwich · shelf 10As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung · shelf 11I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 12Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 13Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 14Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Frederick Douglass · kept 15Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony 16We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because th… John F. Kennedy · shelf 17I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by th… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 18I am still learning. Michelangelo 19I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 20The journey of a thousand li commences with a single step. Laozi · shelf 21You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 22It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington 23Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats 24A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 25With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 26The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo 27Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck 28To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne 29It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf

March

1Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr. · shelf 2You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 3It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela · shelf 4The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D. Roosevelt 5A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. Karl Marx · shelf 6How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 7Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitef… The Gospel of Matthew · shelf 8Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 9It is not down on any map; true places never are. Herman Melville · shelf 10I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman 11I am still learning. Michelangelo · shelf 12Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 13To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 14I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 15You too, child? Julius Caesar 16I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 17Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius 18Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 19What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 20The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid 21The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach 22Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 23Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 24The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by falling often. Ovid · shelf 25These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine · shelf 26Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl 27I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker · shelf 28The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 29The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 30Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal · shelf 31I think, therefore I am. René Descartes

April

1Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 2I accuse. Émile Zola 3I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.4I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr.5Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 6Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 7The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth 8It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · shelf 9Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon 10So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald 11It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 12Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 13Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 14To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 15He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci 16Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr.17Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 18Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 19We ought not to retaliate or render evil for evil to any one, whatever evil we may have suffered from him. Socrates · shelf 20It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 21The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parti… Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · shelf 22I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes 23To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare 24Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 25To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking t… Sun Tzu · shelf 26In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius 27I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft 28I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 29The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 30Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau · shelf

May

1The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Thucydides · shelf 2Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 3It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli 4All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 5The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx 6The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud 7A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume 8If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 9Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale · shelf 10There are tears for things, and mortal matters touch the mind. Virgil · shelf 11The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool. Richard Feynman 12Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale 13I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill 14The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells · shelf 15Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 16Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel · shelf 17We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde · shelf 18I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 19You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X 20Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill 21The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 22When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle 23The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 24I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 25Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Ralph Waldo Emerson 26Facts are stubborn things. John Adams · shelf 27Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 28There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf 29Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry 30Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 31Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman

June

1Moral virtue comes about as a result of habit. Aristotle · shelf 2That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 3We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden · shelf 4We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill 5In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 6The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower 7It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 8Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 9Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf 10Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin · shelf 11Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. James Baldwin · shelf 12I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 13I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats 14If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. William Blake · shelf 15To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln 17When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a co… Edmund Burke · shelf 18Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill 19The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal 20I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar · shelf 21Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre 22In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus · shelf 23I know who I am, and who I may be, if I choose. Miguel de Cervantes · shelf 24The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer · shelf 25Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell 26From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph · shelf 27Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller 28Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 29It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 30Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Com… Winston Churchill · shelf

July

1The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero · shelf 2The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 3Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius · shelf 4We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson 5Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri · shelf 6Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin · shelf 7I think, therefore I am. René Descartes · shelf 8Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. This is an old rule. The Dhammapada · shelf 9It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens · shelf 10The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla 11Tell all the truth but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson · shelf 12I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda 13I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar 14Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. John Donne · shelf 15I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank 16The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Ida B. Wells 17If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass · shelf 18It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. Nelson Mandela 19The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois · shelf 20That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 21The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway 22Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes · shelf 23I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein · shelf 24Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein · shelf 25The eyes of the world are upon you. Dwight D. Eisenhower · shelf 26As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung 27April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot · shelf 28What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot · shelf 29This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot · shelf 30Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë 31Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë · shelf

August

1Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville 2Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin 3If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass 4If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley 5That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong 6So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald · shelf 7Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude i… Viktor Frankl · shelf 8Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 9Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin · shelf 10Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. Benjamin Franklin · shelf 11The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud · shelf 12Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost · shelf 13And yet it moves. Galileo Galilei · shelf 14Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi · shelf 15You have a right to the work alone, never to its fruits. Let not the fruit of action be your motive, nor let… The Bhagavad Gita · shelf 16Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green the golden tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · shelf 17I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale · shelf 18The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway · shelf 19Give me liberty, or give me death! Patrick Henry · shelf 20You cannot step twice into the same river. Heraclitus · shelf 21If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel · shelf 22Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker 23Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace · shelf 24Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river. Jorge Luis Borges 25I, too, sing America. Langston Hughes · shelf 26The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in… Victor Hugo · shelf 27A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume · shelf 28Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo 29We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creat… Thomas Jefferson · shelf 30I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley 31History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. James Joyce · shelf

September

1We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden 2As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere be… Carl Jung · shelf 3Dare to know. Immanuel Kant · shelf 4Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats · shelf 5Here lies one whose name was writ in water. John Keats · shelf 6Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller · shelf 7Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy · shelf 8We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because th… John F. Kennedy · shelf 9All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy 10Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 11I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised… Martin Luther King Jr. · shelf 12We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because th… John F. Kennedy 13A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier · shelf 14Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Dante Alighieri 15He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and neve… Leonardo da Vinci · shelf 16A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 17With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. Abraham Lincoln · shelf 18Cast down your bucket where you are. Booker T. Washington 19Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · shelf 20Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther · shelf 21It is much safer to be feared than loved, when one of the two must be lacking. Niccolò Machiavelli · shelf 22I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. Nathan Hale 23You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. Malcolm X · shelf 24So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald 25The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner 26April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot 27I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. Mary Shelley · shelf 28Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? Confucius 29Call me Ishmael. Herman Melville · shelf 30Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi

October

1What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah · shelf 2Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. Mohandas K. Gandhi 3Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill · shelf 4To philosophize is to learn how to die. Michel de Montaigne · shelf 5From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph 6Lord, open the King of England’s eyes. William Tyndale 7I am a musician. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · shelf 8I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. Pablo Neruda · shelf 9If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton · shelf 10What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche · shelf 11You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt 12Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the… Florence Nightingale · shelf 13Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance… George Orwell · shelf 14Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt 15What does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Nietzsche 16I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde 17Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. Dorothy Parker · shelf 18I do not pretend to understand the moral universe. The arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I c… Theodore Parker · shelf 19The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks · shelf 20The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Blaise Pascal · shelf 21We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 22And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Paul the Apostle · shelf 23Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Octavio Paz · shelf 24I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath · shelf 25The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer 26Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein 27I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath 28Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi · shelf 29We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan · shelf 30Facts are stubborn things. John Adams 31Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats

November

1Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre · shelf 2It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Seneca · shelf 3Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar. William Shakespeare · shelf 4Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. William Shakespeare · shelf 5To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare · shelf 6Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. William Shakespeare · shelf 7In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. Albert Camus 8Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Percy Bysshe Shelley · shelf 9We are a way for the cosmos to know itself. Carl Sagan 10Here I stand. I can do no other. Martin Luther 11Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor… Benjamin Franklin 12We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 13Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo 14We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. Elizabeth Cady Stanton · shelf 15Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. John Steinbeck · shelf 16Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Chinua Achebe 17Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore · shelf 18The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine. Nikola Tesla · shelf 19We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Ursula K. Le Guin 20The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Henry David Thoreau · shelf 21Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire 22What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot 23Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Thucydides · shelf 24Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. Charles Darwin 25All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy · shelf 26I am a woman’s rights. I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. Sojourner Truth · shelf 27I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger. Harriet Tubman · shelf 28To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and… William Blake 29If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain · shelf 30We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the… Winston Churchill

December

1The only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks 2Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire · shelf 3It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington · shelf 4I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice. Albert Einstein 5We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion 6Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman · shelf 7The safety of the people shall be the highest law. Cicero 8Pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one. Horace 9I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde · shelf 10Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel 11Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. John Gillespie Magee Jr.12The Child is father of the Man. William Wordsworth · shelf 13I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W. B. Yeats · shelf 14The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W. B. Yeats · shelf 15I accuse. Émile Zola · shelf 16It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen 17Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations. Jalal al-Din Rumi 18Thomas Jefferson survives. John Adams · shelf 19There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou · shelf 20I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank · shelf 21Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony · shelf 22Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not. Hannah Arendt · shelf 23These are the times that try men’s souls. Thomas Paine 24That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong · shelf 25Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. The Gospel of Luke · kept 26Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it rests in thee. Augustine of Hippo · shelf 27In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present — I am rising to the work of a human… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 28Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a… Marcus Aurelius · shelf 29It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of… Jane Austen · shelf 30The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach · shelf 31Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Francis Bacon · shelf

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